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Dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area

Forest

A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.

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Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defines a forest as, "Land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ. It does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban use." Using this definition, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025 found that forests covered 4.14 billion hectares, or approximately 31 percent of the world's land area in 2025.

See

Worth seeing

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    Lake Railroad Depot

    A Queen Anne Victoria style train depot that operated from the Civil War era to the 1940s, with a caboose outside.

Do

Things to do

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    Roosevelt State Park

    2149 MS-13 (to the south of Morton, west of Forest.),.

Eat

Where to eat

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    Garden Patch

    Here's an opportunity to try some soul food, with a buffet.

How locals move

Getting around Forest the local way

  • Get inCalais and Dunkirk (France), a short drive from western Flanders, receive dozens of ferries a day from Dover in England.
  • Get inThe overnight ferries to Zeebrugge from Hull were axed in 2021, though ferries still run from Hull to Rotterdam (Netherlands), which has good road and rail access to northern Flanders.
  • Get aroundA look on the map shows that Brussels is a good starting point to explore Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Namur and Leuven on day trips.
  • Get aroundLiège is beautiful, but too close to Germany to be a good base for day trips.
  • Get aroundHitchhiking near the bus stop should get you a ride in less than 5 minutes during traffic hours.
  • Get aroundJust hitchhike on the emergency lane at this point, in the portion near the tunnel.

From Wikivoyage: Belgium, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.